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Abstract

According to many commentators, the most important characteristics of 2006 local elections in Slovenia is unexpected success of independent (nonparty) munucipality council lists and mayor candidates. In our research, we wanted to find out if these statements are correct or are they just the effect of unexpected success of nonparty candidates and municipality council lists in specific municipalities. Three questions are especially important to us : are we really witnessing important shift on Slovenian political space ? Are the result of 2006 local election really distinguishing form previous election, concerning the success of nonparty municipality council lists and mayor candidates ? Are there any essential differences between different regions regarding representation of nonparty mayors and municipality councilors ? - (IKR)